Culture industry

The term culture industry indicates the whole of the Entreprise S producing according to industrial methods goods of which the essence of the value holds in their contents symbolic system: deliver, music, cinema, television, radio, video games.

This term is primarily employed in the field of the Philosophie of art and in that of the economy of the culture, where it translates angais it farming industries .

Political philosophy of art

The concept of culture industry was forged by Adorno and Horkheimer, two founding members of the École of Frankfurt. They estimated that the concept of " culture of masse" , that they inherited Elias Cannetti, was hardly ready to describe the news gives. The theory of the industrialization of the cultural production was elaborate in " the dialectical one of the reason " , work in which they affirm that the massive diffusion of the Culture puts in danger true artistic creation. The " Dialectique" was published in 1947 in a Dutch editor, and was written during the exile of Horkheimer and Adorno in the state of California in the United States.

See the article of Bernard Stiegler in Diplomatic Le Monde of June 2004: " The asphyxiated desire, or how culture industry destroys the individu" http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2004/06/STIEGLER/11261

Economy of culture industries

principal Article Culture industry (economy)

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